Which of the Following Statements Best Describes the Condition of the Northern

question 87

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements best describes the condition of the northern American industrial economy by the end of the 1870s?

• A) On a global scale, the U.S. manufacturing economy was only exceeded by that of Great Britain.
• B) The postwar boom that began in the late 1860s continued throughout the 1870s, enriching the lives of many industrial and commercialized agricultural workers.
• C) The number of wage earners in manufacturing remained stagnant.
• D) The industrial advances of the 1850s and 1860s had largely been reversed.

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Nonparametric Tests

Statistical tests that do not assume a specific distribution for the data, making them suitable for analyzing ordinal data or when the assumptions for parametric tests are not met.

Nonparametric Statistical Methods

Statistical methods that do not assume a specific distribution for the data, often used when data doesn't meet the assumptions required for parametric tests.

Parametric Test

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Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test

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